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100Whip-smart, sexy and delightfully twisty romantic thriller.
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100Superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time.
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Comedy seems to have liberated Gilroy, who directs Duplicity with the high gloss and fleet-footed hustle of a golden-age Hollywood craftsman.
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90A throwback to the days of old-school caper movies like "To Catch a Thief," Duplicity is just the kind of sophisticated amusement you would expect from filmmaker Tony Gilroy.
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90Smart, droll and dazzling to look at and listen to, writer-director Tony Gilroy's effervescent, intricately plotted puzzler proves in every way superior to his 2007 success "Michael Clayton."
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90An enormously enjoyable hybrid, a romantic comedy set at the center of a caper movie. But the froth arrives with steel bubbles--the tone is amused and mordantly satirical.
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88So with its smart writing delivered by an in-synch quartet, savor Duplicity as the ideal spring gift.
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Duplicity sparkles with wit.
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80The movie is fun, with plenty of intrigue and suspense that will have audiences clutching at their arm rests.
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80This is a role that the Julia Roberts of 1999 couldn't have played, and that's fine. The one we have here is much better.
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It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Julia Roberts laugh, if just once.
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75The movie resembles Mad magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" series, elevated to labyrinthine levels of complexity.
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75The look and sound of Duplicity is half the payoff.
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75Tony Gilroy deserves the lion's share of credit for making such a delightful movie. His writing and direction find the perfect balance of comedy, sexiness, and tension.
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75Duplicity so thoroughly equates sex and money that, in a manner apt for a recession, the audience is rewired when it's over. You don't care whether they love each other. You just want to see them paid.
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75So this is a light/bright movie that actually illuminates our dull grey lives, reminding us that intrigue can be, well, intriguing. And damn sexy too.
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75It's an odd duck: a labor-intensive piece of light entertainment.
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75Duplicity doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode.
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75Duplicity is perfectly titled: There isn't a second of this smart, twisty, grown-up thriller in which someone isn't lying, cheating or stealing, often from someone they claim to love.
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70There are so many leaps back and forth in time, so many twists and countertwists and double fake-outs, that we keep losing track of who (including ourselves) is supposed to know what when.
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63Given the assault of devilishly clever plot twists that buzz-bomb your brain like a two-hour binge of quad-shot lattes, Duplicity goes down as too smart for its own good.
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63On the plus side, if you're flummoxed by the twisty plot or its occasional holes, you can always gaze contentedly at Clive Owen and be wholly entertained.
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63Duplicity zips from one elaborate piece of hugger-mugger to the next. But at a certain point (for me, it was Rome), boredom sets in.
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63Even the great cast didn't make following the convoluted plot any easier. And all that jumping around makes the film feel a lot longer than it is.
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60A smooth ride boils down to a claptrap, 'Usual Suspects'-style finale.
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60The chemical combustion just isn't there between Julia and Clive, and you can't help wondering if Gilroy wrote this with George Clooney in mind. Still, a glamorous, diverting escapade that over-30s in particular can enjoy.
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60Duplicity is deeply shallow--cheap reversals all the way down. But it's a passably amusing brainteaser.
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60Its ironic complexities tease the brain without pleasing the heart.
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58The female lead in Duplicity calls for the kind of atomic, glow-in-the-dark, Rita Hayworth-in-Gilda sexuality that is most assuredly out of Roberts' range. Angelina Jolie effortlessly conjures up that kind of fire-breathing sexiness. Roberts? Not so much.
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58For all the glam and swank, the film is essentially a bright, shiny, empty puzzle. The puzzlemaking by writer-director Tony Gilroy is clever but most frequently an end in itself.
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50Gilroy zings the film with tantalizing bits of absurdity (one wonders, wistfully, what the Coen brothers would have done with this material), but too often he returns to his darker, more ponderous instincts.
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50The structure of Duplicity is its own worst enemy.
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50With its one-liners and welter of double-crosses, it should settle on the video shelf between "Intolerable Cruelty" and "Mr & Mrs. Smith."
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25More than confusing. It's opaque.
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